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Resources for Improving Your Conversations

No one knows your challenges better than you do. Feel free to help yourself to preparation worksheets and other resources to support your leadership, your team’s learning, and your personal relationships. Nothing is more important.

The Science and Art of Collaborative Decision-Making, by Howard Raiffa, John Richardson and David Metcalfe (Harvard University Press, 2002). A core text in the fields of negotiation, decision theory, and game theory, capitalizing on 40 years of research by Harvard Business School Professor Howard Raiffa.

by Roger Fisher, Alan Sharpe and John Richardson (HarperBusiness 1999). Practical advice on how to help a dysfunctional team get focused and onto the same page, whether or not you are officially in a position of leadership.

by Doug Stone and Elizabeth Tippett (Penguin 2004). Bringing conversational advice to the challenges of transitioning to independence and adulthood, with chapters on roommates, relationships, sex, academics, parents, identity and more. By following four freshman via their e-mails, Stone and Tippett bring humor and insight to the real problems young adults face.

by Tom Butler-Bowdon (Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2007). In his newest addition to the 50 Classics series, Butler-Bowden provides concise summaries and commentaries on fifty of the most influential works on the human mind and behavior. We are pleased that Difficult Conversations was chosen as one of these classics.